Llangrove or Long-grove, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1913

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913

LLANGROVE or LONG-GROVE.

LONGGROVE, or Llangrove, formerly a hamlet of Llangarron was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in1856, from Llangarron and Whitchurch, and is 4½ miles north from Monmouth Station and 3 north-west from Symonds Yat Station, both on the Great Western Railway, 7 south-west from Ross, and 15 south from Hereford, in the southern division of the county, Wormelow hundred, Ross county court district and union, Harewood End petty sessional division, rural deanery of Archenfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. Christ Church, erected in 1856, at the cost of Mrs. Marriott, of Sellarsbroke, is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisle, south porch and a western turret containing one bell. The register dates from the year 1857. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £100, including two acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. E. F. Bosanquet, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Francis Crombie M.A. of trinity College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel and a Congregational Chapel, erected in1852, and seating 100 persons. Mrs. E. F. Bosanquet, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, is lady of the manor. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, sandstone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area and rateable value is included with Llangarron; the population in1911 was 367.

   TREWEN, 1 mile south, is a hamlet.

   Sexton.- Alfred Edgar Powell.

   Post Office.- Charles Freer, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Ross at 8.30 a.m., & 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at 3.45 p.m. & 5.50 p.m. week days only. Llangarron, 1½ miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.

   Wall Letter Box, Treduchan, cleared at 3.55 & 5.55 p.m.

   Wall Letter Box, Trewen, cleared at 6 p.m. week days only.

   Public Elementary School (mixed), built & opened in 1872, with residence for the master, added in 1874; it will hold 140 children; average attendance, 60; Frank Jarmin, master.

LONG-GROVE (or LLANGROVE)
Crombie Rev. Francis M.A. Vicarage
COMMERCIAL
Coles William, grocer	Michell Lucy (Mrs.), nurse
Fencott Elizh. (Mrs.), Royal Arms P.H.	Parry Wilfred Geo. farmer, Trewarne
Francis Richard, farmer, Tretardy	Powell William, stonemason
Freer Charles, grocer, Post Office	Ruck Tomas, blacksmith
Harper James, farmer, Treduchan	Scudamore Alfred, farmer, Ruxton
Hunt William, farmer, Penblaith	Watkins George, farmer, Marks
Jones John Edward, farmer, Treworgan	Wheeler James, wheelwright
Matthews John, boot maker

TREWEN
Brown & sons, farmers, Great Trewen	Powell Charles, farmer, Little Trewen
Davis Morgan, farmer, Upper Trewen	Tainsh Edward, The Ragged House

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913 in Hereford Central Library]